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AFP;ANJ; ANPAu..r.. AGlance-S'pore-M'sia-drugs S'pore hangs two drug traffickers JP/11/J02 S'pore hangs two drug traffickers SINGAPORE: Two Malaysian men convicted of drug-trafficking were executed here on Friday, the government said, bringing to 12 the number of people to have died under Singapore's capital punishment laws this year.

Vignes Mourthi, a Malaysian factory worker, and Moorthy Angappan, a lorry driver were sentenced to death last year after being found guilty of trafficking 27.65 grams (0.97 ounces) of heroin.

"The death sentence was carried out on two convicted drug traffickers this morning at Changi Prison," a Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) statement e-mailed to AFP said, in which it outlined the case against Mourthi and Angappan.

The CNB said Mourthi, 21 at the time of his arrest, had tried to sell a packet of heroin to an undercover officer from the bureau outside the An-Nur mosque in Singapore in September, 2001.

It said Angappan, 27 at the time, asked Mourthi to be the courier for the drugs.

The CNB statement said Mourthi was charged with trafficking not less than 27.65 grams of diamorphine, more commonly known as heroin, while Angappan was charged for abetting in the offense.

They were found guilty in August last year and had appeals rejected in January this year.

Singapore carries out the death penalty by hanging. -- AFP